Tongue Ties

Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-349-52717-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 269 g

Reihe: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'. So writes Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and languages in a group of bilingual Spanish, Spanish-American and Latino writers. Unravelling the 'tongue ties' of such diverse figures as the American philosopher George Santayana, the emigré Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Spanish American novelists Guillermo Cabrera Infante and María Luisa Bombal, and Latino memoirists Richard Rodriguez and Sandra Cisneros, Firmat argues that their careers are shaped by a linguistic family romance that involves negotiating between the competing claims and attractions of Spanish and English.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Firmat, G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Saying Un-English Things in English Wire, Don't Write Spanish-Only Body Talk Mother's Idiom, Father's Tongue Remembering Things Past in Translation Spanish Passion, English Peace Words That Small Like Home I'm Cuban - What's Your Excuse?

Über Autor(innen)

GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages at Columbia University. He is the author of (Anchor, 1996) and editor of (Duke University Press, 1990).